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    God's atemporal eternal 'now' (Boethius's nunc stans) con... — Carmelics
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    God's atemporal eternal 'now' (Boethius's nunc stans) contains all temporal events as simultaneously present, making all truths eternally accessible.

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    • 1.An atemporal perspective resolves logical contradictions between divine omniscience and human free will by placing God outside temporal sequence.
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    • 2.If God exists necessarily and eternally, His knowledge must transcend temporal limitations that bind finite creatures to sequential experience.
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    • 3.The nunc stans model explains how future contingents can be genuinely known without being causally determined by prior events.
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    • 1.Atemporal simultaneity is conceptually incoherent—'present' presupposes temporal flow; without time, simultaneity becomes meaningless.
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    • 2.If all events are eternally present to God, the distinction between past, present, and future collapses, making change and causation unintelligible.
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    • 3.Knowing a future event as eternally present appears functionally identical to determining it, reintroducing the fatalism problem the model claims to solve.
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